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Overview

Mbangawi, officially the 'Kingdom of Mbangawi, is a small country in Africa. It is located between Kenya and Tanzania.

Ancient History

10,000 years ago at least, Mbangawi was inhabited by Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherer tribes.[2]

Around 5,000 years ago, the existing population was gradually assimilated by Cushitic-speaking migrators who introduced a society axed on the agriculture. Mbangawi has been affected by the successive immigration, bringing new concepts.[2]

Trading with Arabia and Persia, the coastal cities of Mbangawi arose, among them Uzuri, exportation place for gold and ivory, who will eventually become the capital of Mbangawi.[2]

In the 16th century, the Portuguese invaded the region, and ruled Mbangawi since then until Germany took it from them late in the 19th century. They lose it as well due to the loss of their colonies after their World War I defeat, and Mbangawi came under the United Kingdom control.[2]

20th Century

In 1961, Samuel N'Dingi, leader of the Gawan tribe (dominant), led the indepence, becoming the king, garnering himself the nickname "Maliki Uhuru" (King Liberty). He established himself at Uzuri, the Emperor's Compound (formerly named the Kaiser's Compound).[2]

Willing to rule fairly and equitably, N'Dingi was confronted to the tribes rivalry and to the corruption of his administration working with foreign companies to leech Mbangawi resources.[2]

Modern Era

Since N'Dingi, affectionately named Doctor Crocodile by his people due to his scarred appearance,[2] got on the throne, things went better as for justice, health or education.[5] In order to put an end to the two difficulties encountered by his father, the corruption and the tribes' rivalry, he recruited, despite his tribe's elders advice, Kura, the Witch Woman of the J'Dare tribe, as his confidante and advisor, and used her mental powers to found and rooot out the corruption from Mbangawi.[2]

He captured Jamie Braddock, a slaver and murderer, and called his brother Captain Britain, having been told he was part of the slavery-net of his brother by the R.C.X.. Once sure that Brian was innocent, he let him go, but intend to execute Jamie.[6]

This one was tortured but eventually freed by the Technet on Saturnyne's orders,[7] and teleport to UK, bringing the Doctor Crocodile with him, where has turned into an actual crocodile.[8]

The Doctor returned to Mbangawi, having been rescued and reverted as a human by Kura.[2]

At some point, an alternate Jim Jaspers made appearances in Karere, and the radiations emitted by his teleportation caused to numerous unborn child to mutate into Warpies, powered and sometimes explosive children.[5]

Mutantes Sans Frontières was sent there to take care of the children, and the X-Men to investigate on this "mutant" bloom. There, they found Mbangawian soldiers intending to kill all the Warpies on Doctor Crocodile's orders. After a tense, N'dingi decided to listen to the mutants.[9]

The Jaspers was then found by the X-Men and Doctor Crocodile's men, but quickly, coming though a Ghost Box, Furies, beings from an alternate universe came then to terminate Jim. They were all killed except for one with false memories of having complete his mission implanted by Emma Frost.[10]

The X-Men promised Mutantes Sans Frontières's help to take care of the children and Joshua N'Dingi accepted, before terminating the young Jaspers and ordering the evacuation of the civilian from Karere, except for the Warpies and the M.S.F. workers and doctors.[1]

Facts

Localization

The localization of Mbangawi is currently unclear, regarding to information with contradictions between referenced sources.[11]

An earlier map (see on the right) showed Mbangawi originally as a coastal country, close to Lake Victoria but with no connection to it, stuck between Tanzania to west and south, and Kenya to the north.[2]

More recently, as a response to the enactment of the AmericanSuperhuman Registration Act and to the Superhuman Civil War, Wakanda hosted to the Pan-African Congress on the Treatment of Superhumans, and Mbangawi was an active part of that Congress,[2] through it was a failure, as the representatives failed to reach an agreement before the end of the Congress.[13]

Criminality

N'Dingi has also clamped down on the problems of muggings, burglary and armed robbery, making of Mbangawi one of the African countries with the lowest crime rates.[2]

Mbangawi's veldts wildlife was targeted by poacher gangs, but such incursions have become less common since President Joshua N'Dingi's rule.[2]

N'Dingi also organized the kidnapping of Jamie Braddock, a British crime lord, drug-runner, slaver and killer who was raiding aid convoys in other parts of Africa, while he was present on Mbangawi soil during a trans-African rally.[6] Despite his actions didn't targeted or affected Mbangawi, N'Dingi wanted to administer him both justice mystical rehabilitation,[2] while the Mbangawian authorities pretended to give the rescue teams full cooperation in the researches.[4]

The country also have some issues with the pirates on the board of the lake Victoria.[5]

Invasions

There is no mention of conventional violence since Germany invasion in the latter part of the 19th century.[2]